International
MODIS/AIRS Processing Package

The International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP) allows ground stations capable of receiving direct broadcast data from the NASA Terra and Aqua spacecraft to create a suite of products from MODIS,
AIRS, AMSU, and AMSR-E. The IMAPP software is freely available, and is supported on Intel Linux host platforms.

IMAPP is also available as a Virtual Appliance for Windows, OS X, and Linux, offering a complete processing system for direct broadcast atmosphere, land,
and ocean products from Terra and Aqua.

AMSR-E Products (Aqua)

Sensor Products

Atmosphere Products

Surface Products

HYDRA2 Multispectral Data Analysis Toolkit

HYDRA2 is a visualization and analysis toolkit for interrogating NASA EOS Aqua and Terra and JPSS S-NPP instrument data. This toolkit was developed to assist research and development of remote sensing applications as well as education and training of remote sensing scientists. Supported platforms include:

NWP Products

The Direct Broadcast CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (DBCRAS) is a regional numerical weather prediction model that assimilates MODIS products in real time and creates forecasts up to 72 hours at 48 km and 16 km resolution.

GeoTIFF Web Mapping Service (WMS) MODIS Display Tool

This package provides users with the capability to display and share GeoTIFF
products through a web browser in a Google Maps interface. It is designed specifically for display of MODIS and VIIRS default GeoTIFF files created by the Polar2Grid reprojection software package. It is distributed as a virtual machine (VM).

Aviation/Severe Weather Forecast Products

The IMAPP Overshooting Tops (OT) software package identifies regions of MODIS data
that contain convective cloud tops that have broken through the tropopause into the lower stratosphere because of a strong updraft. Convective storms with OTs have the potential to produce severe weather at the ground (heavy rain, damaging winds, hail and tornadoes) as well as aviation hazards including lightning and turbulence.

The IMAPP MODIS Aerosol Visibility and Fog/Low Stratus software package attempts to provide hazard information relevant to aviation interests and other forms of transportation by retrieving obstructions to surface visibility due solely to atmospheric aerosols at 10 km resolution and by retrievals estimating the probability of Instrument Flight Rules (MVFR, IFR and LIFR) for a given MODIS 1km Field-of-View (FOV).

Air Quality Forecast Products

The Infusing Satellite Data
Into Environmental Applications - International (IDEA-I) software utilizes the MODIS
Aerosol Product (MOD04) and/or VIIRS Aerosol EDR to identify regions of elevated air pollution, then runs
a trajectory model to forecast the vertical and horizontal movement of the
aerosols in the next 48 hours.

A second version of the IDEA-I software identifies regions of high ozone concentrations in the upper atmosphere using the
single FOV AIRS, CrIS and IASI dual regression retrievals. The trajectory model forecasts
the vertical and horizontal movement of the ozone, identifying potential regions of stratospheric ozone intrusions.